Last week, I expressed my hope of finding some more power at the third base position after shuffling through shaky shortstops. Well I found some, including multiple 20-homer players, but not a single 30-homer guy from last season.

If you’re the sort of person who gets heavily invested in movies and television shows, there are pretty much only two settings: feast and famine. Or more perhaps more precisely, there’s the time of year when everything is out and you are inundated...

Some cookbooks ignite a spark of interest, while others make a big impression. “Southern Living Community Cookbook” made that big impression. It is one of the best cookbooks I have read in a long time.

In song lyrics, sage — along with parsley, rosemary and thyme — is a classic. The herb itself blends harmoniously with other herbs, as a signature winter flavoring. It was used medicinally in the Middle Ages to cure all kinds of ills. Some of that...

I was an only child. And despite my parents’ desire to have a bigger family, it just wasn’t meant to be. Don’t feel bad for me, though. This is a happy column. And I’m going to spend the next 800 words explaining why.

Sports announcer Howard Cosell made famous the phrase “Tell it like it is.” He prided himself on laying out his words of description for the listener just the way he saw it and letting the listener decide for himself just what occurred and, perhaps,...